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“The business of technology and the technology of technology are kind of converging if you ask me. And there is definitely a space for some publications that don’t have decades of technical debt in the software space.” Continue reading… The post Mesosphere and Tech Journalism with Derrick Harris appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

“Don’t be so rigid in your methodologies and beliefs and whatever ecosystem you’re in. Everybody’s gotta be a little bit flexible because that rigidity doesn’t work. The only thing that we do as technologists that is rigid is that the compiler isn’t going to take a syntax error.” Continue reading… The post Django with Frank Wiles appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

“Actually it’s more work to turn a table into a chair, than it is to just make a damn chair.” Continue reading… The post The Evolution of Rails with David Heinemeier Hansson appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

"Every time I’ve gone to a conference, there’s always been some new idea or some new way of working that I’ve been exposed to." Continue reading… The post The Ruby Community with Marty Haught appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

“It really seemed like Rails just put everything together, so I thought well let’s give this thing a try, and I liked it.” Continue reading… The post Learning Rails with Michael Hartl appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

“Docker has made containers much more accessible to developers, and the timing is actually very good because of the whole DevOps infrastructure as code movement.” Continue reading… The post Simplifying Docker with Sean Li appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

Apache Mesos is an open-source cluster manager that enables resource sharing in a fine-grained manner, improving cluster utilization. Michael Hausenblas is a developer and cloud advocate with Mesosphere, which builds the Datacenter Operating System (DCOS), a distributed OS that uses Apache Mesos as its kernel. Questions Can you give the historical context for cluster computing? The post Mesos and...

“If you want to use the newest technology, there is always a segment of viewers that will not be able to view the website well.” Free Lossless Image Format (FLIF) is a novel lossless image format which outperforms PNG, lossless WebP, lossless BPG and lossless JPEG2000 in terms of compression ratio. Continue reading… The post Free Lossless Image Format with Jon Sneyers appeared first on Software En...

“It was claimed that these [object-oriented] languages were better for modularity – and I don’t believe so.” Caml is a functional programming language that is a dialect of the ML programming language family, developed at INRIA and formerly at ENS. Continue reading… The post Caml with Gérard Huet appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

“I think what functional programming does is codify what we’ve discovered are good ways to think about problems most of the time.” Racket is a functional programming language similar to Lisp and Scheme. Continue reading… The post Racket with Matthew Flatt appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

"There are entire days where I don’t even look at the browser when I’m coding in Elm because I just know its going to work.” Elm is a functional programming language for web browsers. Continue reading… The post Elm with Richard Feldman and Srinivas Rao appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

“Mutable state is the root of all evil.” Erlang is a functional, concurrent programming language that was originally designed within Ericsson in the 1980's. It was built to support distributed, fault-tolerant, non-stop applications suitable for telecommunications infrastructure. Continue reading… The post Erlang with Joe Armstrong appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

GraphQL is a query language for managing client-server interactions. Relay is a new way of structuring client applications that co-locates data fetching with view logic. These technologies complement the paradigm shift of React and other Facebook technologies. Nick Schrock is the co-creator of GraphQL and an engineer on product infrastructure at Facebook. Continue reading… The post GraphQL and Rel...

Functional languages encourage practices and patterns that can simplify concurrent programming. Scala, Clojure, and Akka are functional tools built on the Java Virtual Machine. Jessica Kerr is a functional developer on the JVM. She currently works at Monsanto. At QCon San Francisco, she will be giving a talk called Contracts in Clojure: Settling Types vs. Tests . Continue reading… The post Functio...

Microsoft is open-sourcing an increasing range of software. Phil Haack is a former PM on Microsoft's ASP.NET MVC Framework, as well as NuGet, an open-source package manager. He currently works on Github Desktop at Github. Continue reading… The post Microsoft Open-Source with Phil Haack appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

Microservices on container architecture lead to effective workflows associated with DevOps. Docker containers wrap up a piece of software in a complete filesystem that contains everything it needs to run. This allows for quick flexibility and scaleability in business applications, a key driver of the DevOps methodology. James Turnbull is VP of engineering at Kickstarter, an The post Docker and Mic...

Apache ZooKeeper enables highly reliable distributed coordination. Flavio Junqueira is a committer and PMC of Apache ZooKeeper, and former VP of ZooKeeper. Questions include: Why is master election so important in Hadoop? How does a new user begin working with ZooKeeper? How do nodes “watch” each other? Should ZooKeeper be used as a message queue or notification The post Apache ZooKeep...